At 12:13 AM 6/23/02 -0700, Harry Putnam wrote:
>Just going thru the debug tutorial:
> perldoc perldebtut
>Following along having writen the example script to disk.
>I notice any `p' commands gives me a line with the first character
>chopped off.
>
>Like when the tutorial gets to the part where you `p $key', I get
>elcome instead of Welcome. Actually it seems to print the line into
>my xterm like:
>
> DB<2> p $key w
> elcome
>
>Notice the `w' way to the right there. This appears to possibly be
>TERM related. $echo $TERM shows xterm. My setup is:
>OS = Redhat 7.3
>Xwin setup Gnome/sawfish
>
>Running debugger in an xterm (not gnome-terminal)
>
>Anyone have an idea what might be causing this?
>Can it be readline?
That's my guess. The p command in the debugger is equivalent to
print $DB::OUT
so there's nothing mystical there. Try typing
print "Hello\n"
at a debugger prompt.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com/
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